B.G. Firmani has published fiction in the Bellevue Literary Review, BOMB, The Brooklyner, The Kenyon Review, Philadelphia Stories, and Word Riot. A graduate of Barnard College and Brown University, she has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and is a 2012 Fellow in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She also (occasionally) writes a blog about Italian-American literature and folkways called Forte e Gentile.